Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-05-20
HERE AND THERE.


at Corvallis, Oregon.
The peach and almond trees are In bloom In
the footh hills Of California.
A farmer near Greenfield ia, has netted
SIS thus far of the plumage Of IA year-old
peacock.
A panther eleven feet long and weighing
three hundred pounds was killed recently ne ar
shingletown Cal.
A Chinaman who recently left San Fran
him his Peruvian wife.
Ten hshing-smacks arrived at Pensacola,
Fla, last Tuesday, with 1900 red snappers,
weighing III, 200 pounds.
A widow OF Pennsylvania railroad man
has built for herself residence of ffty-two
rooms, one for each week in the year
There have been forty snow-storms In Rut-
land VI, and vicinity this winter, and sleigh
ing has lasted one hundred days continuously
In Japan paper is made OF substance
known as marine age." Ii is strong, aud
SO transparent that it can be used in place OF
glass.
A young man walked seven miles in Colum.
ba county, New York, a few DAYS ago to ask a
maiden to 90 sleigh riding with him, and was
refused.
Twenty ostrlches are on their way from the
colony of Natal, South Africa, 10 California.
They will be placed on the ostrich farm near
Ansheim.
a Pittsburgh justice OF the peace who died
| Wednesday, married over three thousand
couples during his twenty five years Of service
as Justice
Craig Tolver has reformed. and is now
deputy sheriff. For years he was "A leader Of
one Of the gangs OF desperadocs in Rowan
county, Kentucky.
Seals are very destructive OF fish, especially
herring, of.which they consume great qant.
ties. A full-grown seal requires ten pounds OF
fish day for its food
An Old-time Montana frcighter is responsible
for the statement that during a hard winter
living cattle will eat dead ones He has seen
them do 1t often, he says.
Floral decorations of the San Francisco din
/ ing room are orange trees. laurels palms, aud
tree-ferns For table center-pieces are pepper
plants, hyacinths, palm grass and cincraria
In Boston, it is stated, the arrests made for
serious offenses committed on the highway has
shown a very marked falling of in number
since the electric light for street purposes was
introduced.
At recent ball in Mobile, Ala, gentleman
wore the swallow-tail coat in which he was
married fifteen years ago, which seventeen
other budcgrooms had worn, and which had
done duty at forty-three weddings,
In an old valse belonging to O. o. Putncy,
miner who was killed by an avalanche at
Bay Horse, Idaho, were found some faded love
letters, a few bones, and a note saving: Il
wish these bones buried with me.o
A snake started to cross Main street in Orlan.
DO, Fla, the other day when butcher bird
saw him and swooped down on him. The first
peck took out one eye, a few more the other
eye, aud the blind reptile was left writing IN
tie sand until citizen killed him
1t Is stated tina, the average salary OF Meth
odist ministers in the New Hampshire confer
ence, including house rent, is 500, and with
out the latter about s45). The highest salaries
are paid bv 81. Paurs. in Manchester, and
Haverhill Street in Lawrence, Mass, being
ST. 800 and the use Of the parsonage.
Berry TAYLOR who died recently in New
port, Ky, had profound admiration for
actors and actresses, and spent much money
In entertaining them He is said to have dis
posed Of over 100000 in this way, and before
bis death it was necessary to have guardian
to keep him from squandering his entire
fortune
One of the most inveterate cigarette-smok-
srs in Gait, Canada, Is a six year-od who uses
any paper he can get hold of in which to roll
his tobacco. The other evening he went into
I IA tIar in he dark
a piece Of paper from the bureau rolled a
cigarette, and had burned two-thirds OF 1t be-
fore It was discovered he was smoking $40 bill.
In Irwin county Georgia, a few day ago,
horse was bitten on the nose by a rattlesnakc.
/ The animal was given several drinks OF sweet
milk aud alum, and then three bottles Of tur-
pentine were heated and the mouths OF the
bottles placed in succession over the part
bitten. 1t is said that the green poison could
I be plainly seen As 1t was being drawn into the
bottles. The horse recovered
fresh young reformer, while walking on
/ the streets Of Philadelphia during the recent
election, heard man say to another: II want
/ five hundred OF oats well, I'll furnish 'cm
IL you've got the caah, was the answer"
/ Here's how -de-do," said the reformer to
himself "'Five hundred votes Got the
cash. Here's is bribery and corruption for
YOU Aud straghtway he fetched an officer,
who refused TO arrest either the retail feed
dealer who wanted the oats or the wholesale
dealer who had them for sale.
communication TO the London Metcorol-
ogical society by Capt Toynbee states as his
conclusion that clouds Of not less than two
thousand feet In thickness are seldom accom-
panied by rain, or, II they are. 1t Is very gen
tie, consisting Of minute drops; with thick
uess Of betwe cen two and four thousand feet
the SIZE OF the drops is moderate; with in.
cress:ng thickness OF the clouds comes an In.
creasing size OF drops, and at the same time
the degree Of temperature becomes lowered.
When the thickness amounts 10 more than
six Thousand feet hail is produced
Few In our profession" saws theatrical
manager, "realize what a blighting effect the
interstate commerce bill will have on the stun
we have been carrying over the country. The
law declares that all special concessions in
To- or hapuape IL unlawful